CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 217, 17 August 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

ADIoLLAI&Lsiit. I (TO THB EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.) Sir,-— I see by your of the indignation meeting, held' in the Town Ball, on- the 15th instant, that lam reported aa having stated chat «< I also had to stand while Mr Johnston sat down." This I deny having said. I did not accompany Mr .Yiacarihnr when ,he interne wed Mr Juhustoiii bat I huya invariably been shown the greatest courtesy by him, and more especially so ,upon,niy recent, visit to -Wellington, when 1 waited npon him respecting Borough matters. The discourtesy alkued to by Air Macarthur •m his speech, I nnderstcod to refer to my not receiving a reply to a te egram waich 1, as Mayor, aentto Mr Johnston about the proposed alterations in-dhe Square. It I had for a moment imagined that it was supposed Jhafc I nad been treated discourteously on any occasion when 1 have waited upon. Mr Johnston, I should have contradicted it at 1 once. — lam, &c. , FKITS J'ENSSENi ■■ [It would appear that our reporter must have attributed a remark by some person m ehe audieuce as having been made by Mr Jehasen, whunce the mistake. Mr Jensaen assures ua that so far as he him,, self is- concerned, during any interview he had with Mr Johnston on Borough mattan, .nothing could have exceeded the courtesy invariably shown, \ aud the trouble taken by Mr Johnston to afford him every possible information and assistance m his power.— Kd. M.S. |